In this week’s episode of Industry’s Believe It Or Not!, we’ve got hot new rumours (again) of the next-gen Xbox (again).
This time the claim is that the console’s system on a chip (SOC), codenamed “Oban”, has been in production since December 2011, mass production is to begin at the end of 2012, that it’s shipping out in October or November 2013, and that it’s made entirely out of styrofoam with beer bottlecaps and dry macaroni pieces glued to the sides. Okay, I made up the last bit.
According to a report over on Fudzilla, the 32nm Oban SOC is being produced for Microsoft by IBM and Global Foundries, and the console’s CPU will be a Power PC with an ATI Southern Island or modified 7000 series GPU.
According to another report over on IGN, the GPU won’t be from the 7000 series, but the 6000 series, somewhat “akin” to the Radeon HD 6670 that launched last year. The 6670 features 1080p HD output, with support for DirectX 11, 3D, and multiple displays.
Stay tuned – next week, we’ll have exclusive images of the new Xbox from the manufacturing plant on the dwarf planet Eris, where they were recently photographed by Voyager 2.
Xbox 720 prototype undergoing testing
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